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Title
Manuscript of George Brown, D.D., Pioneer-missionary and Explorer, an Autobiography ; a Narrative Of Forty-eight Years' Residence And Travel In Samoa, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
Creator
George Brown, 1835-1917
Call number
A 4096
A 4097
Level of description
fonds
Date

August 1889-1908
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
931952
Physical Description
0.9 metres of textual material (1 volume and 1 box) - manuscript, typescript
Scope and Content
A 4096
1. Pages corresponding to pages 278-480 of the printed book covering Tonga, New Britain and New Guinea December 1878-August 1890, including detailed account of Tongan disputes, extracts of reports, etc. which are not in the printed book.
2. Wesleyan Board of Missions proceedings August 1889-January 1891 relating to proposed mission in New Guinea.

A 4097
3. George Brown's diary, 7 June-14 August 1890.
4. Folder marked 'Some of the pages left out of my book'.
5. Miscellaneous pages including 10 manuscript pages which all seem to have been printed.

2 and 3 are used in the printed book but 3 gives a fuller account of this first New Guinea visit. A more detailed list of contents is in the volume
Language
English
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Published Information
George Brown, D.D., Pioneer-missionary and Explorer, an Autobiography ; a Narrative Of Forty-eight Years' Residence And Travel In Samoa, New Britain, New Ireland, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. George Brown, London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. Parts 1-2 and some of part 3 are in the published item, part 3 gives a fuller account of this first New Guinea visit.
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Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-47A) as part of the eRecords Project, 2010-2011
Name
Wesleyan Missions
Subject
Missionaries--Great Britain.
Missions--Oceania.
Autobiography.
Missionaries--Diaries.
Missions--New Guinea.
Brown, George, 1835-1917--Diaries.
Place
Tonga
New Britain Island (Papua New Guinea)
New Guinea
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